The leader of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua says women and children are being forced to leave their villages ...

An escalation in fighting between Indonesian security forces and Papuan separatist armed groups in West Papua has seriously ...

A West Papua independence leader says escalating violence is forcing indigenous Papuans to flee their ancestral lands.

Escalating violence in Indonesia's West Papua region is threatening the security of the largely indigenous population amid intensified clashes between Indonesian security forces and separatist ...

Many ethnic Marind, the indigenous tribe in Merauke in West Papua’s south, consider the crop “alien and invasive”. Apart from land grabs and human rights abuses around oil palm plantations ...

That's because, separated by dense bush and living in mud huts, the disparate tribes of West Papua speak wildly different languages and have their own governance systems. But Wenda thinks his ...

CIVICUS discusses the devastating impact of palm oil extraction in West Papua with Tigor Hutapea, legal representative of Pusaka Bentala Rakyat, an organisation campaigning for Indigenous Papuan ...

The 'Dani' tribe lived uncontacted by the outside world until 1938, when they were accidentally discovered tucked away in the Highlands of West Papua, Indonesia. Their homeland in the Baliem ...

More than 90 West Papuan tribes, political organizations and religious groups called on March 20 for a boycott of products allegedly implicated in the "ecocide" of the region, according to a ...

The Awyu tribe, whose roughly 20,000 members rely on the land for their subsistence, had sought to suspend the operations of private palm oil company PT Indo Asiana Lestari in West Papua.